from 93 to 2000 she served as a professional staff member on the senate environment and public works committee which is in markup right now and she then moved on to the senate finance committee where i had just come from where she served on the senate environmental, senior departmental advisor and we thank you very much for your work and the work that is being done. we will ask you to go at it and start your testimony and try to keep it five minutes. if you go a little beyond that it's okay. we will start voting around 11:15 and we want to get as much time as they can. mr. fugate please receive. >> thank you senator. hurricane sandy was essentially to disasters in one and it also covers a geographical area that today we today we know the heaviest impacts were in the jersey shore, new york city harbor area and in connecticut with peripheral impacts. before landfall we anticipated impacts from as far south as cape hatteras and the carolinas and as far west as west virginia which was under a blizzard warning all the way up to the central ohio valley including maine. to prepare for that